📝 "When I seek another word for 'Music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'..."

Friedrich Nietzsche

📜 #Venezia1600. In 2021 Venice celebrated its 1600 foundation anniversary 🍾🥂

When we go back to Medieval times or before, it's always hard to tell precise dates, due to lack of written infos and changes in the calendar during history.
In #Italy we have always had an "advantage" as concerns dates in history: the Church!
For centuries the few people who could really write and report in the used official language (Latin) were those involved in the various churches spread all over the country, that's why our history is so detailed.
Having said that, it seems (and some historians are pretty sure about) that on March 421 AD (on day 21 or 25) the first stone of the first church was layed in "Rivus Altus"...

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📸 Venice island is divided into 6 districts called Sestieri.
Click on the links below👇for related photos, videos and an essential guide to the districts 😃

👉 Santa Croce

👉 Dorsoduro + Giudecca

👉 San Polo

👉 Cannaregio

👉 Castello

👉 San Marco

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🎆 For you a list of the main events, celebrations and traditions you can live and enjoy every year in Venice.
Click on the links below👇for related descriptions.

👉 Carnevale (February - March)

👉 San Marco and Bocolo (25 April)

👉 Art / Architecture Biennale (April - November)

👉 Sensa (May)

👉 Vogalonga (May/June)

👉 Redentore (July)

👉 Film Festival (August - September)

👉 Regata Storica (September)

👉 Venice Marathon (October)

👉 San Martino (11 November)

👉 La Salute (21 November)

👉 Santa Lucia (13 December)

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The world has changed a lot for everyone of us in these last years and we all got used to words like virus, pandemic, social distancing, lockdown, #quarantine...
Yes, Quarantine: do you know that this word is Venetian? Venice was the first city in the world to invent and implement "Quarantena" (which stands for "40 days").
This dates back in Medieval times...

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I post a video of my Venice Quarantine Tour across the Lagoon, anyone can enjoy with me when here 😊😃

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https://youtu.be/L9387TadaNQ

🎥5 January 2006. Venice in Movie Series.
The Thief Lord, a 2006 British-German family drama and fantasy film directed by Richard Claus and almost entirely filmed in Venice is released.
It is the story of 2 children, Prosper and Boniface, whose parents die and their aunt Esther plans to adopt five-year-old Bo (Jasper Harris) and send 12-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson) away to boarding school. But before she can separate the two, Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the magical city about which their mother had often told them stories. In Venice, the boys live on the streets, and Prosper's money quickly runs out...
Here's the trailer👇
#VeniceMovies #5January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQvMHUU3ko

8 January 1324. Marco Polo, maybe the most legendary and representative historical figure in Venice, passes away aged 69 in his Venetian house, today Corte Milion and Malibran Theater.
I guess many of you remember landing in Venice🛬 at Marco Polo Airport 😉... The main symbol of Travel 🌏

#MarcoPolo was member of a Venetian merchant family, which between 1271 and 1295 decided to travel and explore the Silk Road to reach Cathay (China)...

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Venice Rocks... in this 2022 too! 🤟
https://youtu.be/Wqrm0s_WRXw

Walking Tour: Venice North

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https://youtu.be/Q8JMuNVU6iw

🎼25 January. Today the City of Florence, #Italy has decided to build and dedicate a statue to Narciso Parigi, one of the most prominent singers of the Italian era of "stornellatori" (1940s -1950s).
#NarcisoParigi passed away in #Florence on 25 January 2020, aged 93. His name will be forever bound to the 2 most beautiful Art Cities, Venice and Florence!
As concerns Venice, Narciso interpreted one of the most known 1900 songs about the city, "Venezia La Luna e Tu" (written in 1939 by A.Derevitsky - L.Martelli).
As concerns Florence he is the singer, among the many songs about his city, of the official hymn of local Fiorentina football team ⚽️, "O Fiorentina".
#25January #VeniceMusic #FlorenceMusic

https://youtu.be/yoUcf-mV4-w